The Story of Old Fort Dearborn
The Story of Old Fort Dearborn
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For the purpose of crippling her adversary England issued, in 1807, h^^ famous Orders in Council, which declared that the vessels of neutral nations were liable to seizure if engaged in trade with the enemy. Napoleon retaliated by issuing the equally famous Decrees of Berlin and Milan, which declared Great Britain to be in a state of blockade, and that all vessels bound to or from British ports were liable to capture.
To enforce the Orders in Council was a [95] THE STORY OF comparatively easy t...ask for the English navy, then as now the most powerful among the nations; and in consequence the ocean com- merce of the Americans sufifered severely, for at that time every ocean highway was thronged with the merchant ships of the United States. The interference with our commerce was greatly aggravated by the high-handed action of the English in forcibly taking away from our ships many of their seamen and pressing them into the service of the English navy. This grievance especially became so exasper- ating that the war spirit of the Am^erican people was aroused from one end of the land to the other.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
For the purpose of crippling her adversary England issued, in 1807, h^^ famous Orders in Council, which declared that the vessels of neutral nations were liable to seizure if engaged in trade with the enemy. Napoleon retaliated by issuing the equally famous Decrees of Berlin and Milan, which declared Great Britain to be in a state of blockade, and that all vessels bound to or from British ports were liable to capture.
To enforce the Orders in Council was a [95] THE STORY OF comparatively easy t...ask for the English navy, then as now the most powerful among the nations; and in consequence the ocean com- merce of the Americans sufifered severely, for at that time every ocean highway was thronged with the merchant ships of the United States. The interference with our commerce was greatly aggravated by the high-handed action of the English in forcibly taking away from our ships many of their seamen and pressing them into the service of the English navy. This grievance especially became so exasper- ating that the war spirit of the Am^erican people was aroused from one end of the land to the other.
What to read after The Story of Old Fort Dearborn?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by J Seymour Josiah Seymour Currey to read onlineMoreLess
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